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[STEAM][PRESS]Apple removes the first iOS Game Boy emulator released under new App Store rules

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/ Photos of iGBA that appeared on the App Store before the app was taken down. (credit:
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[/url] Over the weekend, developer Mattia La Spina
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as one of the first retro game emulators legitimately available on the iOS App Store following Apple's
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earlier this month. As of Monday morning, though, iGBA has been pulled from the App Store following controversy over the unauthorized reuse of source code from a different emulator project.

Shortly after iGBA's launch, some people on social media
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that the project appeared to be based on the code for GBA4iOS, a nearly decade-old emulator that developer Riley Testut and a partner developed as high-schoolers (and distributed via
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). Testut
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to call iGBA a "knock-off" of GBA4iOS. "I did not give anyone permission to do this, yet it’s now sitting at the top of the charts (despite being filled with ads + tracking)," he wrote.

GBA4iOS is
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released under the GNU GPLv2 license, with licensing terms that let anyone "use, modify, and distribute my original code for this project without ***** of legal consequences." But those expansive licensing terms only apply "unless you plan to submit your app to Apple’s App Store, in which case written permission from me is explicitly required."

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